From her website:

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her fiction includes regional bestseller The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Joanne has won awards for her nonfiction and published fiction, articles and essays in newspapers, magazines, and books.

Her recent book, Pen Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line is a remarkable memoir. "PEN Journeys tells the story of the important organization PEN from the ground and through insightful eyes…and with narrative flair."—Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran.